1/04/2010 @ 6:00PM

Billionaire Predictions 2010

What will happen in 2010? Will gold stay strong and the dollar remain weak? Will stock markets continue to climb, and which asset classes will outperform?

Rather than peering into a crystal ball, we turned to some of the world’s richest and most successful businesspeople for their takes on the year ahead. We queried billionaires from around the world on a variety of topics ranging from global warming to the best assets to own in 2010.

Ten of the more talkative ones including Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan answered our 10-question survey. But unlike last year when nearly all of the quizzed billionaires predicted an eventual economic recovery, this year’s participants had wildly different ideas about where the global economy is heading and what they consider to be the most alarming trends. Consensus or not, their answers are quite revealing.